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[lorenzoK]

Hi,
   I frequently have opera DVDs that have been ripped into VIDEO_TS folders with associated .VOB files. To port them over to my macMini I find I need to convert them to .MP4 files. I use MediaCenter to do the conversion. Often the subtitles do not seem to be available in the .mp4 file after the conversion. Of course, the .mp4 file does not have a menu that would enable me to turn on the subtitles. I do notice that MediaCenter's
Player->Display Options->Subtitles has an option for finding the subtitles when the mp4 is loaded, but I would need to find an extracted subtitle file and I don't have one.
 
1) should I first extract them from the .VOB files ? How?

2) are they in the .mp4 files and I don't know how to find them ?


Your help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Lorenzo Kampel

[astromo]

Just to rule things out, what happens when during playback you do a right click to bring up the OSD / context menu?

Refer here:
http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Subtitles#Selecting_Subtitles

According to the Wiki advice it's typical for DVD subtitles to be found with a bit of digging. MediaInfo is a separate tool that you can use externally to interrogate a media file for the content of key meta data - that's another option.

Can't comment on how MC rips DVDs. I use MakeMKV and mkvtoolnix. This pair gives me the flexibility of picking and choosing what gets ripped and what streams are set by default.

[blgentry]

Yeah, you should check out MakeMKV for sure.  It will let you make a lossless rip instead of MP4 (lossy) and allow you select subtitles, audio track(s), etc.

Brian.